uncolonialadj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xlv, in All Year Round 8 June 242/1 A certain person not altogether of uncolonial pursuits.
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adj.1861- to be on the street
- to be on the streets
- to be on the sure side
- to be on the sure side of the hedge
- to be on the tenter(s
- to be on the tenterhooks
- to be on the top ropes
- to be on the warpath
- to be on the weigh-scales
- to be on the weighscales
- to be on the wrong side of a person
- to be on the —— side
- to be on thorns
- to be on thorns a thorn
- to be on to
- to be on to something
- to be on trial
- to be on trial for one's life
- to be on wires
- to be one mass of
- to be one reckoning
- to be one's bag
- to be one's bit
- to be one's brother's keeper
- to be one's craftmaster